A debut coming-of-age novel about a motherless teenage boy who discovers
a terrifying secret in his small Georgia town, and finds that sometimes
the most gruesome monsters are those inside ourselves.

What I need to do, needs to be done before it gets too dark . . .

Sixteen-year-old Samuel confronts his own inner monster when he discovers
a set of deformed triplets whose mother believes they were immaculately
conceived. Soon, the babies have taken hold of his waking and sleeping
thoughts, and, unable to escape them, he decides to save them, but their
shutin mother and violent older brother want nothing to do with him.
Samuel must fight the trouble within him and the trouble he sees around
him to determine who he will become in a year that forces him to grow
from motherless boy to self-defined man. Set in a small Georgia town,
this psychologically complex story of survival and self determination
explores the dark, often contradictory worlds of young contemporary life,
laying bare the ugly truths and secrets that haunt all of us.